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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 5176662" data-attributes="member: 5">Seems obvious the sabotage took place to ensure that the three missing members could then get a gate address and return.  Destiny was still in range when it broke down and thus a new gate address appeared on Eli's handheld dialing device and he made quick work of dialing in.  Someone wanted one of those three to return enough to risk the ship but it apparently wasn't Rush or Young, either of whom could have spoke openly about halting the ship somehow if they thought it was safe (both had apparently written off the three lost members).Upon returning, Eli seemed to think it was done on purpose and said something to that effect, so (as smart as he is) I chalk him up to not having anything to do with it.  Plus, Eli is really the audience, he was our first introduction to the whole show and we've been given real information about his background that would make it a very cheap trick to have himn retroactively have also been recruited by the Lucian Alliance in the short time that anyone would have been aware of him.Could be Scott, I suppose, but his continued support of Young would seem to indicate that he is not.  If the Lucian Alliance was fine with doing everything Young's way and keeping the status quo there wouldn't be much point to them being a plot point.Chloe keeps doing strange things.  By staying tight with Eli, Chloe gets close to all of the technical information of the ship.  She's sleeping with Scott which probably gets her some inside information on what Young thinks and does.  She switched sides against the military and stepped up as a pseudo-leader during that time, and also betrayed both Scott and Eli in the process.  She works her way back into Scott's bed after outright betraying him.  She becomes fast friends with Eli again after outright betraying him.  She walked purposefully toward being taken by the aliens when they cut a hole in the ship.  Her story of how, in the tunnels, she reads alien (ancient?) hieroglyphics seems in one moment to be passed off as having studied Daniel Jackson's work (why does she claim to have done this?  Why is it Eli who reveals this?) and in the next moment to have something to do with her abduction and captivity (though we know that their information extraction devices are one-way mediums and she wasn't prisoner long enough for any significant two-way interrogation like Rush experienced).  She got in tight with James after the sabotage, helped massage her story, and convinced her to take that massaged story to Young (and she stayed right by her side to seemingly ensure the story James gives is one that is believed, as well as to perhaps see the reaction of Young).  Looking to her backstory, her Senator father basically forced his way into overseeing what was going on with the program and, of course, cleared his trusted protege.  Would someone really bring his daughter into such a dangerous off-world situation with as few skills as Chloe professes to have?  If we write her femme fatale act off as a ruse, the rest of what she actually does adds up to some significantly suspicious activity with potentially deeper implications.</blockquote>

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